this is too mild to be a rant, and it’s definitely mundane and pointless, but it still annoys me…
last week, i picked up a Buck Metro keyring knife, i just got around to reading the warranty card and there’s this block of…glurge on it!
leaving my religious beliefs (or lack thereof) out of the picture for the moment, i don’t care what a person’s religion is (or isn’t), it’s none of my business.
however, i don’t think it’s proffesional for a business to promote glurge when selling their product, it’s just not proffesional behavior, had i known about the glurge Buck pumps out along with their product, it may have made me reconsider the purcase of a Buck knife…
however, taking the knife at it’s face value as a retail product, and ignoring the glurge, it’s clear the knife is a well designed, proffesionally manufactured product, and should be able to stand on it’s own merits without the need for a sappy “God is our Boss” glurge
Buck Knives, you make a fine product, let it stand on it’s own merits without the sappy glurge promoting it
now i’m torn, Buck does make a good pocketknife (so do other manufacturers), but glurge annoys me, does their use of glurge annoy me enough to make me not purchase another Buck knife? i’ll have to think about it, i hate supporting glurge-freindly companies…
true, but you can never have too many knives, just like flashlights…
heck, i EDC (Every Day Carry) 3 of each, but they’re so small, you’d never know i had them…
right front pocket; Fenix L1, Spyderco Endura
right belt holster; SureFire 6P, Inova X5
left pocket; Buck Metro on keyring, Kershaw Vapor II
right now i’m trying to decide which knife to EDC, so i’m erring on the side of caution and carrying both the Kershaw and the Spydie, the Kershaw has the advantage of all-metal construction and a Hard Anodized (possibly HAIII) coating…nope, fails the “scratch in an unobtrusive area” test…, the Spydie has better steel (VG-10) and holds an edge better, has a more secure blade lock (the Kershaw has a frame-lock, Spydie has a lockback)… and looks scarier the Spydie wins the “intimidation” test, a.k.a. “scare the sheeple”
I’ve never heard of this company before, but obviously it’s been around for a while. By modern standards, yeah, it is not perceived as “professional” to proclaim religious beliefs nowadays, but back in the era of the guy who wrote that I imagine it was considered quite the norm. I can see why the company might continue it out of respect for the founder or as “tradition”.
Kissing Krane has been Kissing Krap since the 1980’s. In fact, all the German makers have suffered a fall-off in quality over the last 2o or 30 years. Compare something like a vintage Hubertus to anything produced by Kissing Krane/Bokker/Puma today and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
That said, Buck historically made good quality knives at a realistic price. Lately, I have heard that production of at least some models has been moved to China. I can only presume quality will suffer. I got my first Buck in 1973. It was a stockman model and all three blades were frighteningly sharp. I got my next one, a Special (fixed blade), in 1976. It had the “glurge” in it. Every Buck I ever purchased for myself or as a gift since then had that little slip of paper in it. When I was Greek Catholic it didn’t bother me. After I lost my faith and became an atheist…it still didn’t bother me. Seriously, with all the crap that goes into packaging, why not regard it as just one more thing to throw away?
that’s where i found mine, but it was all icky and covered with dust bunnies so i had to throw it away, besides it had long past the “three second” rule…
We can assume Cold Steel has no member of any pantheon on their side since they have never actually made any knives. Everything in the Cold Steel catalog is produced by subcontractors. EVERYTHING. Cold Steel has no production capability and never has. Judging by your post, you have a low opinion of Buck. It might interest you to know that the knife on which Cold Steel built its reputation, the tanto, was initially produced for them by Buck. Buck continued to produce it for them for quite a long time until a cheaper subcontractor in Asia took over manufature.
We won’t get into the squalid story of how Lynn “Cold Steel” Thompson basically stole the design of the tanto from Bob Lum.
Sorry, I meant to “preview” not submit. I wouldn’t say all the German makers have gone to pot, though. You’d be hard pressed to find a better knife than Wüsthof.
No where in your post did you address the quality of Cold Steel blades, of which I own many and testify as to their strength, sharpness and durability.
No where in your post did you address the quality of Cold Steel blades, of which I own many and testify as to their strength, sharpness and durability.
the Spydie wins the “intimidation” test, a.k.a. “scare the sheeple”